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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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All we behold is miracle.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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